Oxford for Tourists | Visiting Oxford
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Virtual Tour of Oxford, Colleges, Alleys, Pubs Museums and Bookshops
External Oxford City of Dreaming Spires. Tourists often ask "where is the university?" and the answer is "All around you!" . Oxford University Colleges are very old and surround the town centre in a way they are the town. Confusingly many of the college do not identify themselves with name plaques, they are usually built around inner courts so turning their back to the streets. Christchurch and Magdalen Colleges being the exception both dominating approach roads into Oxford.
Bill Clinton and Margaret Thatcher were students here. Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) was a maths lecturer here. See below for the pub where J.R.R. Tolkein and C. S. Lewis and the other Inklings would meet to exchange ideas. Go on the Oxford Literary Tour or the Oxford Ghost Tour. Perhaps start by jumping on a Guided Tour Bus. Visit the world's oldest Museum The Ashmoleum.
Bill Clinton and Margaret Thatcher were students here. Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) was a maths lecturer here. See below for the pub where J.R.R. Tolkein and C. S. Lewis and the other Inklings would meet to exchange ideas. Go on the Oxford Literary Tour or the Oxford Ghost Tour. Perhaps start by jumping on a Guided Tour Bus. Visit the world's oldest Museum The Ashmoleum.
Contents at a Glance
Postbox at Broad Street, Catte Street Junction Oxford
Old Tom Tower Christchurch, St Aldates Oxford
Carfax Tower Corner seems to be the meeting point for tourists
10 things a Tourist Must do in Oxford
Well more than ten things actually
- 1Eat a sandwich in Bonn Square
- 2Walk through Christchurch Gardens
- 3Visit the Unique Pitt Rivers Museum
- 4Visit beautiful Port Meadow
- 5Visit the famous Turf Pub
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6Visit Magdalen College
Take a tour, see the Deer Park -
7Punting
You must go punting -
8Join a walking tour (from Broad Street)
Choose a theme literary, ghosts, mysterious Oxford. The bus tours are also excellent - 9Walk down New College Lane and a get a feeling for Medieval Oxford
- 10Meet up at Carfax Tower
- 11Go down to Jericho, may be see some weird art film at the Pheonix
- 12Go all ethnic down the Cowley Rd, many excellent restaurants there.
- 13Visit the underground bookshop, Blackwell's Broad Street, afterwards have coffee in their coffee shop.
- 14Visit the Ashmoleum Museum, the world's oldest museum.
- 15Visit the Eagle & Child Pub on St Giles, meeting place of the Inklings, where Lord of the Rings and Narnia was born.
Sheldonian Theatre Broad Street Oxford
A Traveller's History of Oxford
A Traveller's History of Oxford gives the reader a clear account of Oxford's earliest beginnings from Roman times, its Anglo-Saxon past, its importance in medieval England, the founding of the different colleges, its status as Royalist capital during the Civil War and after this crisis, and its recovery and continuing growth right up to the twenty-first century.
The book also looks closely at the story behind the beautiful buildings and discusses Oxford's gifts to the world both in the alumni, which include five kings, 25 British Prime Ministers, 36 Nobel Prize winners, and 85 archbishops, and in the world of ideas: the legends of King Arthur, the English Bible, Anglicanism, the Royal Society, Methodism, Pre-Raphaelites, Alice and Wonderland, Aestheticism, OED, Inspector Morse, ...The list is endless.
It also has practical information, illustrated with maps, on exploring the town and a Chronology of Events.
The book also looks closely at the story behind the beautiful buildings and discusses Oxford's gifts to the world both in the alumni, which include five kings, 25 British Prime Ministers, 36 Nobel Prize winners, and 85 archbishops, and in the world of ideas: the legends of King Arthur, the English Bible, Anglicanism, the Royal Society, Methodism, Pre-Raphaelites, Alice and Wonderland, Aestheticism, OED, Inspector Morse, ...The list is endless.
It also has practical information, illustrated with maps, on exploring the town and a Chronology of Events.
A Traveller's History of Oxford (The Traveller's History Series)
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Sheldonian Theatre Broad Street Oxford seen from Blackwell's Bookshop
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Radcliffe Observatory Oxford (no longer used as such)
Oxford through the eyes of Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse was a travelogue exposing the classical beauty of Oxford and was a hit worldwide. Many tourists come to Oxford because of this.
Bonn Square Oxford chill out place for tourists and workers on lunch break
Traditional Wooden Faced House Oxford
Oxford has many old-fashioned back streets and alleys
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- I would love to visit Oxford someday. Thank you for the virtual tour.
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